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day coach
or daycoach
noun
- an ordinary railroad passenger car, as distinguished from a sleeping car, parlor car, or other deluxe accommodations.
- the class of airline coach for daytime flight at regular fare. Compare night coach.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of day coach1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Save for a single parlor car or two, it has always been a day-coach train, no excess fare being charged.
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But her mother bulked large and had been too long accustomed to her own rocking-chair to rest in a day-coach.
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The Thropps rode all day in the day-coach to Chicago, and Kedzie loved every cinder that flew into her gorgeous eyes.
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The other day-coach had fallen upon one end, and one-third of it was under water.
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At the first stop I run forward on the off-side of the train, pass the Pullmans, and duck under and take a rod under a day-coach.
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